Spookily Good Cocktails for the Witching Hour

By Seren Charrington Hollins

Hookah smoke in a glass on a gray background with hookah tube

It is the time of year when pumpkin spice is the flavour of the month and witch and scary costumes are just the ticket, that’s right its October and Halloween is very much the season for grown up goblins.

It’s the perfect time of year to serve up a little black magic in the form of cocktails that are spookily good and will revive tired spirits.

Book of Shadows ounces black vodka
2 ounces coffee liqueur
1 scoop quality vanilla ice cream
Pinch of mixed spice

In a glass, combine vodka and coffee liqueur  and set aside. Place a scoop of ice cream in a highball glass, and slowly pour vodka mixture over ice cream. Garnish with mixed spice; serve immediately.

BLACK MAGIC

This is a super simple cocktail recipe that is always popular with guests as it creates a fabulously deep black drink.  This a wonderful cocktail to serve at Halloween parties, but don’t be fooled by its good looks and sweet taste, this cocktail is punchy and too many of them may make you feel ghostly.

 

 2 jiggers Black Vodka

 20 ml Freshly Squeezed Lime

 20 ml sugar Syrup

 Ice

Instructions

Into a cocktail shaker add in your sugar syrup, lime juice, and black vodka.

Fill with ice. Give it a hard shake for 30 seconds. Pour cocktail into your

glass and serve.

Happy Halloween and a spooky chin chin!

Author

  • Seren Charrington Hollins

    Seren runs a catering business and delicatessen in Mid Wales, but she is not your run of the mill caterer or deli owner. She is a mother of six and an internationally recognised food historian who has created banquets and historical dinner parties for private clients and television. Her work has been featured on the BBC, ITV & Channel 4 and she has appeared in BBC4’s Castle’s Under Siege, BBC South's Ration Book Britain, Pubs that Built Britain with The Hairy Bikers, BBC 2’s Inside the Factory, BBC 2’s The World’s Most Amazing Hotels, the Channel 4 series Food Unwrapped and Country Files Autumn Diaries. Her work has also been featured in The Guardian, The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Telegraph. Her two most recent books are 'Revolting Recipes from History' and 'A Dark History of Tea'

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